Embodied mind
General ecological information for higher cognition
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Non-lawful regularities in a form of life support skilled engagement with distant, socio-cultural affordances.
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Where the mind 'ends' depends on the scale you look at.
Cognitive boundaries are argued to be multiple nested Markov blankets, so brain, body and world are not uniquely privileged; and non-lawful regularities in a form of life can support skilled engagement with distant socio-cultural affordances.
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General ecological information for higher cognition
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What are ecological psychology's main concepts here?
The main theoretical concepts of ecological psychology are affordance and ecological information (Gibson ). Affordances are possibilities for action
How is skilled intentionality defined?
Skilled intentionality is defined as the selective engagement with multiple affordances simultaneously. Some of the affordances we encounter in a
Key findings
General ecological information is any niche regularity such that aspect x makes aspect y likely; lawful information is a special case. Imagination is anticipatory skilled engagement with multiple affordances, not a mandatory inner representation.
Methodology
Within the Skilled Intentionality Framework they reconceive ecological information so that conventions, habits, and other constraints—not only lawful optical specification—can support affordance engagement, including activities tagged as 'higher' cognition.
Limitations
It does not empirically measure attunement to particular constraints, and it does not fully analyse every 'higher' practice (they flag science-fiction writing as unfinished).
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